3 Mike ​ Waterworth Technical​ Artist

Contact Location: North West England Mobile: + 44 (0) 7765304726 Email: [email protected] Website: www.mikewaterworth.com

Personal Statement I have been in the games industry since 1990 and in this time I have collated many skills in developing games. I have performed many different roles in my career; from sprite artist, texture artist, environment artist, weapon and prop artist, vehicle modeller, character modeller, character rigger, creature animator, tool developer, to management roles like lead artist and team leader. These varied experiences have allowed me to develop my skills as a technical artist and I truly enjoy the challenges of this role. Though recently, whilst working a smaller games company, I have to admit to being more of a generalist than a true technical artist. My skills allow me to not only sculpt, model and texture an asset, but also rig, animate and import it into a game engine. My technical art skills allow me to maintain the import and export pipelines, develop new tools to enhance workflow, as well as set up and maintain animation state machines and animation blueprints in a game engine. It's all great fun! I also enjoy the challenges of working on projects outside of the limitations of games; rigging and animating objects using systems and deformers not supported within game engines. I pride myself on being a hard working, self-motivated professional with a passion to do my best on whatever project I'm working on.

Key Skills ● I am skilled in Maya, Motion Builder, Vicon’s IQ, Photoshop and have experience in MudBox, 3DStudio Max/Character Studio, Substance Painter, AfterEffects, XSI/Softimage and Abode Flash. ● I have experience in SourceSafe, Perforce and Alienbrain Asset Management. ● I have experience using Unreal (3 and 4) and Unity (4 and 5) game engines. ● I have scripting experience in Mel in Maya, Python in Motion Builder and Jscript in Softimage and Maxscript in 3DStudio Max. ● I have experience in setting up and maintaining an optical Motion Capture studio. I have organized and directed motion capture sessions for both optical and gypsy suit captures. ● I have good communication and leadership skills.

Referees Available on Request Career History

Lucid Games Ltd Feb 2012 - present (Listed in order of most recent)

SwitchBlade (PS4, PC) Vehicle Rigger We’re Going on a Bear Hunt (iOS) Character Modeller/Rigger/Animator Liberty City (iOS, Conversion from PC) Texture Artist (Conversion from PC) Character Re-Modeller/Rigger Puppy Parlour (iOS) Character Rigger and Animator Jacob Jones and the bigfoot adventure (episode One and Two) (PS Vita, iOS) Character Rigger and Animator 2KDrive (iOS) Character Rigger and Driver Modeller Travel Bug (PS Vita) Character Rigger and Animator

TT Animation Ltd May 2011 – Feb 2012 What's your news? series 2 (Children's TV show) 3D Modeller with Technical Knowledge

Bizarre Creations Limited ​ Feb 2003 – Feb 2011 (Listed in order of most recent) James Bond: 007 BloodStone (x360, PS3, PC) Character Tech Artist Blur (x360, PS3, PC) Character Tech Artist The Club (x360, PS3, PC) Lead Character Artist/Tech Artist The List Prototype (x360) uncompleted Lead Character Artist/Tech Artist HellRacer Prototype (x360) uncompleted Environment Artist/Tech Artist White Knuckle Racing Prototype (x360) uncompleted Environment Artist/Tech Artist LegoRacers (PS2) uncompleted Environment Artist/Tech Artist PGR3 (x360) Environment Artist (Additional City Art) PGR2 (x360) Environment Artist (Additional City Art) SmokeScreen Prototype (x360) uncompleted Artist

Rage Games Limited Feb 1998 – Jan 2003 Rolling (PS2) Animator/Tech Artist Wild Wild Racing 2 (PS2, PC) uncompleted Artist Wild Wild Racing (PS2, PC) Lead Artist Dispatched (PC Intel demo) Lead Artist Pegasus down (PC) uncompleted Lead Artist

Intersection Limited June1996 - Feb 1998 Hellracer (PS1) uncompleted Environment Artist

Scavenger UK Feb 1996 - June1996 Spanish Blood (PS1) uncompleted Lead Artist

Psygnosis Limited / Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe Oct 1990 - Feb 1996 Krazy Ivan (PS1) Artist Phoenix Rising (mega CD) uncompleted Additional FMV Art Last Action Hero (mega CD) unreleased Artist No Escape (mega CD) unreleased Artist Bram Stoker's Dracula (mega CD) Additional Sprite Art Wiz n’ Liz (mega drive) Artist Barbarian 2 (Additional artwork for Amiga) Additional Art Shadow of the Beast 1 + 2 (conversions for FM Towns and PC Engine) Artist ______

Details Age: Born 1968 Nationality: British Marital Status: Married

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Interests Games, comics, films, sci-fi, motorbikes, MMA and my dog.